#character

There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#been #characters #deals #great #humanity

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#bad #character #create #every #fictional

I don't bring my life into a character at all. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#character #i #into #life #my life

You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#earnest #everyone #many #movies #purpose

In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#character #endears #especially #films #get-go

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#based #character #conversation #depends #director

I'd like to play every type of character, but only once. I like to expierence things. ↗

— River Phoenix

#every #i #like #once #only

In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters. ↗

— Midge Ure

#industry #meet #music #music industry #nice

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#because #being #characters #come #even

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#characters #i #live #lives #putting